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Undergraduates may obtain cards entitling them to a reduction of 25 cents on tickets to all performances from P. C. Lewis '17, Thayer 26. These cards are not transferable and are good when presented at the Co-operative Branch store or at the box office. Tickets for all performances are on sale at Thayer 26, the Co-operative Branch and Herrick's, at $1.00 and $1.50 exclusive of the 25-cent reduction...
Tickets at 50 and 75 cents, $1.00 and $1.50, are on sale at Herrick's in Boston, or may be purchased in Cambridge at the Co-operative Branch store or from E. R. Milton, Claverly...
...faculty--that is rarely used to qualify the accuracy of a person's memory per se. We are wont to esteem highly and without discrimination those whose powers of recollection are well nigh faultless, and yet of what merit is the mind that can only imitate and plagiarize? To store up mere facts and uncorrelated details is worse than useless. The natural limits of mental capacity are soon over-run, and there is no room to cultivate original thought and imagination. A machine's efficiency is determined by the ratio of the energy applied to the power ultimately delivered...
...only speak what we have heard and write what we have read our mental efficiency is zero. Although we probably will always applaud, if not envy, the person having a memory of uncommon accuracy, yet, as Professor Neilson suggests, "the modern idea is that memory is not a store-house in which to place parcels not be used until taken out, but rather an incubator in which you place the eggs and from which you extract the chicks...
...other opportunities offered by the Bureau are varied. Twelve students have received employment as stenographers, four have positions in the university store, three are employed at the college office, and many act as monitors in class rooms...